You are not always forced to abandon your old platform or
your favorite applications when you make the move to
Linux. With enough hard drive space, you can dual boot
Windows on a separate partition and share files across file
systems. Tools exist that allow you to run many Windows
applications directly in Linux. You can even emulate
MacOS Classic without a PowerPC.
This chapter is all about using these tools. Some are built
into your openSUSE installation, others are freely available
for download, and some commercial products are available
to purchase as well.
You will learn about the Wine project and its Crossover
Linux commercial spinoff, that allows you to run many
Windows applications in Linux. Win4Lin is another
commercial product that allows you to run Windows 98 or
Windows 2000/XP applications directly in Linux. VMware
uses a virtual machine approach to installing and running
other operating systems and applications. Basilisk II is the
MacOS emulator, and DOSBox recaptures some of the
earlier days of personal computing. Finally, you??™ll take a
peek at a new project that??™s been gaining a lot of attention
recently, the Xen Virtualization Project.
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